Taro Hattori -Installation Work

EXHIBITIONS

2017	Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA (upcoming) "Rolling Counterpoint" solo community project Japanese American Museum, San Jose, CA "Rolling Counterpoint" solo community project Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA "Justice for All?" group exhibition Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA "Pulp Fiction" group exhibition
2016	SOMArts, San Francisco, CA “Resistance” group exhibition Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA a group exhibition Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA "Rock the Garden 2016" an outside sculpture show
2015	Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Print Public” group exhibition The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA solo residency exhibition
2014	Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA “Elevated Corrugated” group exhibition Gallery Ishi, Tokyo, Japan “Exinclusivity” solo exhibition
2013	artMRKT, San Francisco Solo Installation Project represented by Swarm Gallery, Oakland
2012	Oakland City Hall, Oakland, CA Installation as a part of “Art & Soul” Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA “Taro Hattori" solo exhibition The Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA "Lost & Found" group exhibition
2011	West Collection, Philadelphia, PA “West Prize 2010” group exhibition Black Square Gallery, Miami, FL “Where Do Birds Go Off to Die" solo exhibition Pro Arts at Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA "Exinclusivity" solo exhibition as a part of "2x2 Solos"
2010	McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC “AIR Winter 2010 Exhibition” residency exhibition Dugg Dugg at NC Music Factory, Charlotte, NC “1/1000 sq/ft” solo room installation in conjunction with a group exhibition NEXT, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL Swarm Gallery, invitational art exposition San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Now and When” solo room installation in conjunction with a group exhibition Black Square Gallery, Miami, FL “Dream Catcher Project” a group exhibition
2009	Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA “V” solo exhibition Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan “Residency Project” solo exhibition Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA “Front + Center” group exhibition NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NYC “Interface : Nature” group exhibition Mission 17, San Francisco, CA “All Good Things” group exhibition
2008	Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Poland “3 way calling” three person exhibition Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA “The Great White” group exhibition NEXT, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL Swarm Gallery, invitational exhibition LMAN Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Artists’ Choices” two-person exhibition
2007	Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA “The Little Show” group exhibition Space 47, San Jose, CA “Apoptosis” solo exhibition Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA “Cultivating Creativity” Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA “Fabric of Identity” Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA “2007 Art Auction” Judson Memorial, New York, NY “Anarchist Book Fair”
2006	Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA “APAture 2006”, juried show for Asian American artists The LAB, San Francisco, CA “Some Assembly Required”, juried exhibition Photo SF, San Francisco, CA Steven Wolf Gallery, international art exposition Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA “Future Tense”, group show Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan “Artists’ Diary: The Chapter of Spring Light”, group show
2005	Rocket World Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Beaut Brute”, solo show RPS Gallery, Oakland, CA “Bubble Trouble in Doubles”, group show Bound Together Bookstore, San Francisco, CA “Packed”, public window display SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Thirty Something”, group show organized by Kala Art Institute Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA "2005 Open House”, open house event Mission 17, San Francisco, CA “The Diorama Show”, (invited) group show
2004	Gen Art at Old Mint, San Francisco, CA “Emerge 2004”, juried group show Mission 17, San Francisco, CA “Happy Pack”, collaborative solo show of Studio Islander Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA “The Big Picture.”, group show Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA “Close Calls: 2004”, juried group show
2003	Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA “Missing \| Persons”, group show Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA “2002 Kala Fellowship Exhibition / Part 1”, group show
2002	The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA “Paradise in Search of a Future”, group show Safety-Kleen Gallery One, Elgin, IL Group show with other video installation artists
2001	Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY “Mitochondria Emancipation”, juried group show Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL “Art/Tech, ABSOLUT vision6, art: the next generation”, group show CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY “Paradise in Search of a Future”, group show Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea “The impossible”, group show Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL “IMMOBILITY”, one person show Art Chicago 2001, Chicago IL Peter Miller Gallery, international art exposition
2000	Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL Two person show Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL “Dissimulation”, group show Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY “2 Far 2 Close”, juried group show The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, group show
1998	Chicago Cultural Center, IL “Chicago’s Own”, group screening Gallery 2, Chicago, IL “Textuality”, group show

CURATORIAL PRACTICE

2008	Mission 17, San Francisco, CA “Amidst the Ruins –Val Britton, Michael Damm & Zchary Ryer Scholz” Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA “Interplay –David Kwan, Nora Pauwels, Bartosz Posacki & Steve Reich”
2007	Mission 17, San Francisco, CA “Blabbable Doodads –Eunjung Hwang & Miriam Dym”
2007 -current	The LAB, San Francisco, CA Member of Curatorial Committee
2005	RPS Gallery, Oakland, CA “Bubble Trouble in Doubles”
2004	Mission 17, San Francisco, CA juror for “By Any Means Un/Necessary” Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA “The Big Picture”
2003	Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA “Missing \| Persons”

PUBLICATIONS

East Bay Times, "San Jose ICA exhibitions put paper in a new perspective", August 2016
Square Cylinder, "‘NextNewPaper’@ SJIA", August 2016
"The Art of Cardboard" by Lori Zimmer, July 2015
The Columbia Paper, "Our Culture inspires...", July 2014
WAMC Northeast Public Radio, "Art Omi Weekend 2016", July 2014
Square Cylinder, SF Art Fair Report, David M. Roth, June 2013
KQED, 2012 in Review: 10 Outstanding Bay Area Art Experiences, Christian L. Frock, December 2012
Art Practical, "(re)collection—A collaboration with Lost and Found” Lea Feinstein, October 2012
KQED, "Lost & Found: Photographs in the Aftermath of East Japan” Christian L. Frock, October 2012
KQED, “Finding Art & Soul in Oakland: Artist Taro Hattori Infiltrates City Hall” Christian L. Frock, August 2012
Miami New Times, “Saturday Three-Step” Carlos Suarez De Jesus, June 2011
KQED, “Studio Invasion: Taro Hattori” Kristin Farr and Emmanuel Hapsis, March 2011
Art in America, “Taro Hattori” Mark Van Proyen, March 2010
Miami New Times, “Two Wynwood Galleries...” Carlos Suarez De Jesus, December 2010
Artillery Magazine, “Bay Area Emergent” Anuradha Vikram, May 2010
Square Cylinder, “Taro Hattori and Jordan Essoe @ Swarm” DeWitt Cheng, November 2009
Art Practical (Shotgun Review), “V” Stephanie Baker, November 2009
Art Voices, “The Great White” Jenelle Davis, September 2008
Artforum.com, “The Great White” Natalie Sciortino-Rinehart, August 2008
Gambit Weekly, “White Space” D. Eric Bookhardt, July 2008
Modern Painters, “INTERPLAY” Yasmine Van Pee, July 2008
Artweek, “Taro Hattori at Space 47” David Buuck, March 2008
Percolator Magazine, “Amidst the Ruins” Tonya Warner, March 2008
East Bay Express, “Quality in Quantity” Jakki Spicer, December 2007
Flash Art, “Blabbable Doodads” Alison Bing, July 2007
Berkeley Daily Planet, “The Fake Real of ‘Future Tense’” Peter Selz, July 2006
EGG Magazine, “Taro Hattori,” All that Glittering Issue, Rabbit Pei, February 2006
SF weekly, “Beaut Brute,” Sharon Mizota, December 2005
East Bay Express, “On The Wall: What's Happening in East Bay Art,” David Downs,November 2005
East Bay Express, “Scenes,” Bubble Trouble in Doubles, Kelly Vance, November 2005
San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Thirty Something,” Clark Buckner, July 2005
San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Kala Artists Annual Exhibition”, Clark Buckner, January, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle Online, “Happy Pack”, Alice Bing, September 2004
ArtWeek, “’Close Calls’ at Headlands Center for the Arts”, Mark Van Proyen, April 2004
East Bay Express, “This Week’s Day-by-Day Picks”, Kelly Vance, April 2004
Newsletter East Asian Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, October 18, 2001
Art Monthly, Korea, “Exploring Banality and Potentials of Media Art”, Won-Kon Lee, July, 2001
Chicago Shimpo, “Immobility”, Hiroko Saito, March 14, 2001
New York Times, “2 Far 2 Close”, Holland Cotter, October 27, 2000
Chicago Shimpo, “SAIC group show”, Hiroko Saito, February 11, 2000
Chicago Reader, “Chicago’s Own: World Views”, Fred Camper, April 17, 1998

PUBLIC / ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2010	University of North Carolina in Charlotte, Charlotte, NC Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC Sonoma State University, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Rohnert Park, CA
2009	UC Berkeley, “It's All About Image” a symposium , Berkeley, CA California College of the Arts, "Artist Talk" an artist talk for interdisciplinary department, Oakland, CA Taipei National University of the Arts, “Artist Talk” Taipei, Taiwan Headlands Center for the Arts, “Artist Talk” Sausalito, CA
2008	College Arts Association, “Art Blogging” a panel discussion, Dallas, TX
2007	Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006	California State University at East Bay, Hayward, CA
2005	Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
2004	Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
2003	Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2002	The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2001	Korea Society, New York, NY

AWARDS / AFFILIATIONS

2017	California Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, Quick Grant
2016	Art Matters, New York, NY, Art Matters Grant California Humanities, Oakland, CA, Quick Grant Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga CA, Commissioned Project Residency
2015	DeYoung Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, Artist-in-Residence Fellowship The Luminary, St. Louis, MO, Artist-in-Residence Fellowship
2014	Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY, Artist-in-Residence Fellowship
2013	University of California, Berkeley and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Partnership for a place-making project “Print Public”
2012	Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY, Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Can Serrat, Barcelona, Spain, Artist-in-Residence Full Stipend Fellowship
2011	West Prize 2010, Philadelphia, PA Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Full-Fellowship Residency
2010	Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), Los Angeles, CA, Investing in Artists Grant
2009	Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, Artist-in-Residence Award The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, Art Project Grant
2008	McColl Center for Visual Arts, Artist-in-Residence Award for 2009 Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan. Artist-in-Residence Fellowship
2005	The 2005 Leah Middlebrook & Norio Sugano Fellowship, 2005
2004	Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA., Resident Artist for 2005 Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, Fellowship Artist-in-Residence Award
2003	Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, IL. Fiscal Partnership
2002	Kala Art Institute, Kala Fellowship Artist-in-Residence Award
2000	Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL. Represented Artist
1998	INTERCOM, Gold Plaque Award in Student Narrative Section Chicago Cultural Center, 2nd Place Award in Loop Student Screenings

TEACHING

2011	Lecturer, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2010 - present	Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts, Oakland and San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION

2000	The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL Master of Fine Arts, Time Arts/Video
1994	Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan Bachelor of Arts, Clinical Psychology